The Holy Father sent a message to the gathering of The Courtyard of the Gentiles this November in Portugal with a message to the atheists: Live As Though God Exists. How simple. Would that they would.

Next weekend we’re going out of town for Christmas so I won’t be here. I’ll leave this lovely NASA image as a Christmas present and ask that everyone remember in prayer not only the victims of the Connecticut killer, but all peoples in the world in danger of death from two-legged predators who want to rob them of their freedom and lives. We are brothers and sisters all.

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5 Comments to Sunday Snippets – A Catholic Carnival

Beautiful picture from NASA Barb! Our priest begins each daily mass with this phrase “Praise be Jesus and Mary.” And we respond “Now and forever.” I like how you have that (or almost the same ) at the end of your post. Have a safe and wonderful trip this weekend!

You know, our priest even asked us lay people serving as lectors for daily mass, to say that instead of “Good morning.” We are given the task of announcing the entrance song or reading about the saint for the day. Before we do that, he would like us to say “Praise be Jesus and Mary’ since “good morning” really isn’t liturgical!Noreen recently posted..Sunday Snippets~A Catholic Carnival

Sounds great. Imagine if every Catholic did this upon greeting one another or as your pastor has you doing it at the beginning of Mass. How many times a day would we be giving glory to God? What blessings would rain down on us!